Ghosts of Halloween Past

**Normal posting has been interrupted for a special Halloween Series** 

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!!

I mean what other time of the year can you dress like a complete idiot and eat lots of candy?

So I'm entering another S.I.T.S challenge and choosing to tell you about the Ghosts of Halloween Past.

My friends and I have a Halloween Costume party every (every) year and have been doing so since college. Over the years my costumes have been interesting to say the least.....

There was the year I was Velma from Scooby Doo, a tooth fairy, a rodeo clown.... the list really goes on and on.

Alice & Wonderland: Queen of Hearts, Alice, Madhatter, Rabbit

Rodeo Clown

Wizard Of Oz: The Good Witch, Dorthy, The Evil Witch

This year is no different. Saturday night a group of friends will get together to celebrate Halloween and enjoy having a reason to have a get-together. 

What will I be this year?? 

You'll have to wait till Monday..... because I like the element of surprise ----- or I have no clue what I'm going as yet. 

You decide! lol

Linus: He'll come here because I have the most sincere pumpkin patch and he respects sincerity. 

Sally Brown: Do you really think he will come? 

Linus: Tonight the Great Pumpkin will rise out of the pumpkin patch. He flies through the air and brings toys to all the children of the world. 

Sally Brown: That's a good story. 

Linus: You don't believe the story of the Great Pumpkin? I thought little girls always believed everything that was told to them. I thought little girls were innocent and trusting. 

Sally Brown: Welcome to the 20th century! 

~ It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown ~

B2B Day 5 ~ Why I Blog

Day 5 ~ Why do I blog?

The reason I started blogging and the reason that I still blog are two totally different things. I started out blogging just because I wanted to write. I wanted to make sense of the world around me and the situation I was going thru at the time. 

Along the way several things happened that I wasn't expecting;

• I got followers --- it amazed me that people were actually reading the stories that I wrote
• I made friends -- This is perhaps the part that surprised me the most, I didn't expect that blogging would lead to such awesome friendships. 

Now I blog because I enjoy it. I enjoy putting my thoughts and ideas out there. Telling stories about things I have done, the places I have been, and the people that are making an impact on my life. 

I enjoy reading back and remembering moments that I might have forgotten about if not for this blog.

And on nights that I'm lonely and really missing Marine it's nice to read back over old posts that remind me of the fun times we've shared and the fun times that are still yet to come. 

I blog for me. I blog for you. I blog because really what else is a writer to do? 

Why do you blog?

Barney, "Kids!? No! Don't have kids! The rule is no kids until you're at least 45. 

Don't you EVER read my blog? It's gotten a lot better."

~ How I Met Your Mother ~

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This is Day 5 In Case you Missed Them Check Out: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Day 4

I Don't Care About Your Band ~ Winner!!

Ok thank you to those that entered my first contest!


To determine a winner I went to random.org and let them decide.....



Drum roll please.................

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And the winner is Aurora from over at Confessions Of A Cocktail Napkin. Congrats Aurora!! Please leave a comment with your email address so I can contact you. To everyone else, thank you for reading and thank you for entering!!!